This has been the fastest 8 months of my life by far! It seriously blows my mind! I feel like I am still a greenie but now my greenie is almost at 6 months! Word to the wise in regards to missions, Work hard because it goes by too fast not to. This week was really great! We were once again able to stay busy and teach a ton of lessons. The car makes it so much easier but the real concern is that we have only been allotted 50 km's a day and we live 10-15 km's out of our area so we have no clue how we are expected to survive. Plus we don't have bus passes now! There is always an adventure to be had when walking though so we will live.
One of the highlights for me was district meeting! This weeks went so much better. I trained on one of the missionary fundamentals "Revelation through church attendance" but I took a different spin on it. We always talk about how to get people to come to church but I feel that helping them have an uplifting experience at church is often overlooked. To start I had us read Alma 48:1-17 and asked everyone to think about how it applied to helping people attend church. It went really well and it Sparked lot of discussion about how we can prepare people for church and make sure church is a revelatory experience. It was great and as I was preparing I thought about how everyone "rewrites" vs 17 and substitutes someones name in but I thought we need to focus on why Moroni was like that so as a district we rewrote the second half of vs 16 which describes how and why Moroni was so righteous.
On Tuesday night we found a family to teach and had one of the most spiritual lessons of my mission. At first they didn't want to let us in but we testified on their doorstep and after 5 minutes they said "step inside". After 10 minutes standing in their front entry way they finally said "come take a seat" They are from a different church but they allowed us to share what we had with them. they asked fantastic questions and eventually we had a super spiritual lesson that they received very well. They expressed their great desire to have us back. We texted 2 days later to see when we could return and their response shocked us. They told us they had researched and found out that we were satanic devil worshipers and that we should destroy our Book of Mormon. It was really sad to have to drop them as investigators but even more saddening that they are missing out on the blessings of the Book of Mormon just because of what someone put on the internet. It really was sad and tough to see.
On a happier note Devon is still on date to be baptized on March 19! He came to church and so did Greg who is on date for the 26 of March! We have made a huge push for member missionary work and we are having so much success with that. If you read this go on a visit with the missionaries! It makes ALL the difference!
It was pretty weird to go over to the Orr's house for dinner because they know everyone I know but they are a great family and they just have that southern Alberta feel so that is nice. They are a really fun family and they said they will have us for dinner once a week! That is half of our meal appointments almost! I am loving Regina and we are becoming so close with so many members! It helps a ton!
Love you all!
Elder Stewart
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| Alberta plates are everywhere! |
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| Selfie with Anthony and Devon |
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| Brother Uwazny was in Regina for business and took a package to Elder Stewart. |
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